the parisian macau, a walk around, and a drive to the wynn palace, cotai strip, taipa, macau sar, 30 august 2021@papa osmubal
(erratum: n.b. video caption should read ‘the parisian macau, a walk around, and a drive to the wynn palace’, NOT ‘the venetian macau, a walk around, and a drive to the parisian macau’.)
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red hot chili peppers’ ‘the other side’ cover song by lucinda
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The Parisian Macao (Chinese: 澳門巴黎人) is a casino resort on the Cotai Strip in Cotai, Macau, China owned by Las Vegas Sands, which features a half-scale Eiffel Tower as one its landmarks. It was originally expected to be operational in late 2015, with that later changed to August 2016. The hotel officially opened on 13 September 2016. The Parisian under construction in August 2015. The Parisian Macao was estimated to cost around $2.5 billion and is being funded by Las Vegas Sands with $1.5 billion in bank loans and $900 million to $1 billion in cash. The company will also have to pay a penalty of 900,000 patacas for the delay in developing the plot. Construction began in February 2013. Originally expected to be operational in late 2015, the completion of The Parisian Macao was delayed and finally opened in September 2016. However, its launch quarter results were below expectations. In 2019, 600 rooms in The Parisian Macao was renovated into 300 suites to meet rising demands. This brings the total room count from the original 3,000 rooms and suites to approximately 2,700.
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Wynn Palace, Steve Wynn’s Cotai integrated luxury resort, is located 20 minutes from the center of Macau and about 40 miles from Hong Kong. The resort is situated on the Cotai Strip and third skyscraper in Macau featuring a 28-story hotel with 1,706 rooms and suites, massive gaming space, gourmet restaurants, 200,000 square feet of retail space including more than 50 luxury retail shops, gaming space, meeting facilities, fitness center, spa and salon. Guests will fly into the resort in air-conditioned Sky Cabs flying over an 8-acre, 325,000-square-foot Performance Lake stepping into a world of unimaginable beauty and pleasure.
The casino features a selection of more than 200 table games as well as offering junket rooms with special tables for high-end gamblers. Furthermore, the resort has been honored with seven Forbes Five-star awards for two consecutive years, presented to Golden Flower, Wing lei, The Spa at Encore, The Spa at Wynn Macau, Wynn Macau, Ristorante II Teatro and Encore at Wynn Macau.
The second phase of Wynn Cotai is already taking shape, it will include a 15,000-seat entertainment venue called the “Wynn Diamond Coliseum” and we do not know the expected date of opening for this yet. (worldcasinodirectory.com)
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Cotai (Chinese: 路氹城; Cantonese Yale: Louhtáhm Sìhng; Portuguese: Zona do Aterro de Cotai) is a 5.2-square-kilometer (2.0 sq mi) piece of newly reclaimed land on top of Seac Pai Bay between Taipa and Coloane islands in Macau, that has made two independent islands become one island, since 2005. The word (a combination of Coloane and Taipa) can also refer to the entire new island which was formed by the reclamation. In the second sense, the Special Administrative Region of Macau now consists of the Macau Peninsula plus Cotai Island, about a mile to the south.
Cotai was created to provide Macau with a new gambling and tourism area since Macau is so densely populated and land is scarce, and many hotels and casinos can be found in the vicinity of the “Cotai Strip”.[3] In 2006, a new hospital was founded in the Cotai area, the MUST Hospital, which is associated with the Macau University of Science and Technology Foundation.
History
In 1968, a causeway (Estrada do Istmo) connecting Taipa and Coloane was inaugurated. Throughout the 90s, a series of landfill works expanded this isthmus, and after the 1999 transfer of sovereignty over Macau from Portugal to China, further landfills began to expand this small isthmus further.
Hotels and Casinos
The “Cotai Strip” is a name dubbed to the entire hotel-casino area, when the term “Cotai Strip” has been trademarked by Las Vegas Sands Corporation, which coined the phrase (USPTO Registration Nos. 4396486 and 4396486 for gaming and hotel services), and only applies to its properties.
Galaxy Entertainment Group’s Grand Waldo Hotel was the first casino to commence operations in Cotai, opening its doors in May, 2006.[citation needed] The construction of many other casino and hotel projects is currently underway. The largest and most notable property on Cotai so far is Las Vegas Sands’ Venetian Macao, which opened its doors on August 28, 2007. Melco PBL Holdings opened the City of Dreams directly across the street from the Venetian on June 1, 2009.
As of September 2020, several new hotel-casinos have opened in Cotai, with several more scheduled to open in the next few years including the Grand Lisboa Palace and the Lisboeta Macau.
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